This gives to the equipage a lop- sided appearance, according to our notions, but it is held here to indicate style.

The idea to be conveyed is that you usually drive a pair of horses, but that for the moment you have mislaid the other one.

The German driver is not what we should call a first-class whip.

He is at his best when he is asleep.

Then, at all events, he is harmless; and the horse being, generally speaking, intelligent and experienced, progress under these conditions is comparatively safe.